Declared 2012 Republican Presidential Candidate
Former Speaker of the House
Newt Gingrich
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Gingrich Position on Business and Labor
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• Gingrich believes that workers have basic human rights but unions have outlived their purpose.
• Unions discourage competition and are overly concerned with politics, spending millions of dollars on influencing government policies while their pension funds are in the red.
• Unions have made the cost of producing goods in the U.S. prohibitive.
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Declared 2012 Republican Presidential Candidate
Career Flight Attendant
Tom Miller
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Miller Position on Business and Labor
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• Miller will terminate the Federal minimum wage and let the free market establish pay rates.
• He respects that the role of the Federal government is limited to providing the regulations and oversight for the protection of workers/businesses from criminal wrong doing, while supporting our free market system. The Federal government will no longer be a third party participant or competitor of our free market.
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Declared 2012 Republican Presidential Candidate
U.S. Representative from the State of Texas
Ron Paul
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Paul Position on Business and Labor
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• Ron Paul believes that inflation is caused by big business’ demand for easy money.
• We would not let shareholders vote on executive compensation.
• We should replace illegal export tax breaks with $140B in new breaks.
He would overhaul bankruptcy laws to require at least partial debt payment.
• He thinks labor should have the right to organize but there should be no specific benefits for unions.
• He thinks that the minimum wage limits opportunities.
• He believes that unemployment benefits should stay at 39 weeks and that extending them encourages people to remain jobless.
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Declared 2012 Republican Presidential Candidate
Former Governor of Massachusetts
Mitt Romney
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Romney Position on Business and Labor
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• Mitt Romney voiced his protest against a labor bill known as The Employee Free Choice Act that would make it easier for unions to organize describing it as a dangerous legislation saying that it would have a negative impact on the nation's ability to compete globally and would also dampen the scope of new businesses.
• Mitt Romney suggested that welfare recipients should go to work immediately. He suggested doing away with capital gains taxes for those firms that invest in inner city enterprise zones also advocated tax credits for hiring poor residents of those areas.
• He stands for writing off a lot of capital expenditures of business firms to induce them to buy more so that it will have the effect of other companies hiring more people thus generating more jobs.
• He believes a cut in Corporate Taxes will have a significant impact over time. It can stimulate the economy, create jobs and encourage foreign investment.
• He said that the American worker could be richer by $9000 a year by opening up the market to American goods and services. The workers can sell the products they manufacture around the world thus raking in more income.
• He is of the opinion that it is the businessmen and not politicians who should negotiate trade with foreigners so that patents, designs and technology etc are adequately protected.
• He encouraged Trade and commerce with Asian countries saying that it will only strengthen the Us economy and lead to further growth.
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Declared 2012 Republican Presidential Candidate
Matt Snyder
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Snyder Position on Business and Labor
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"Fair Tax would be best. A 50% reduction in the corporate tax rate is the minimum act we can initiate to help those who create jobs in America. "
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Declared 2012 Republican Presidential Candidate
Businessman
Vern Wuensche
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Wuensche Position on Business and Labor
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• Vern Wuensche believes that we should increase jobs by reducing taxes in all forms and reduce regulation to support small business.
• Wuensche believes that we should eliminate lobbying by all government officials.
• He believes that citizen and government workers should be under the same laws.
• He believes that our prisons should require prisoners to work to acquire new job skills in producing products to reduce their cost to the state.
• He believes that collective bargaining by government employees should be abolished.
• He believes that all employees should be allowed the right to work without being a union member.
• He opposes card check legislation favoring unions.
• He believes that union members should be allowed to give or withhold consent for the expenditure of their dues to any party.
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